[f. med.L. typographus (see prec.) + -ER1.]
1. One who is skilled in typography; a printer.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 24. To maintain the trade and mystery of Typographers.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, i. By A Typographer, I do not mean a Printer…. But by a Typographer, I mean such a one, who … can either perform, or direct others to perform … all the Handy-works and Physical Operations relating to Typographie.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. Pref. 9. The Vatican Typographers…, in Printing several Treatises.
1778. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. Addit. k j. A very antient edition … without date, place, or typographer.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, II. i. 17. Whenever the poet hesitated about taking the hints of the zealous typographer.
† 2. = TYPEWRITER 1. Obs. rare.
1829. Mechanics’ Mag., XII. 128. A curious machine … called a typographer. Ibid. The time is near when a man … will instantly resort to his typographer, instead of his pen and ink.
3. A beetle, Bostrychus (or Tomicus) typographicus, which makes print-like markings in the bark of trees. Also called typographic beetle. Also typographer (bark-) beetle.
1840. Loudon, trans. Köllar’s Treat. Insects, 357. The Typographer Bark-beetle. Ibid., 358. The larvæ … gnaw tortuous passages,… which, on account of their resemblance to letters, have obtained for the beetle the name of typographer.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 656. The Typographer beetle … devours, both in the larva and perfect states, the soft wood beneath the bark,… and thus causes the death of the tree.
